The waste is the raw material of the XXI century

Environmental impact of end of life products: plastics, chemicals, vehicles, agri-food marketing. direct recycling and recycling (upcycling or upcycling) and reuse of good items for the trash!
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Re: Waste is the raw material of the 21st century




by brinbrin62 » 23/03/18, 10:56

Plastic recycling has no future. Recycled plastics are used once to produce products that will be ultimate waste (non-recyclable). Rather than think recycling, we should avoid manufacturing and use plastic and prefer metal or glass, a little better recyclable. The disposable industry is a nuisance.

Mind you, I say metal and glass, but recycling them is problematic as well. Many metals are alloys which it is impossible to re-refine and which, recycling / remelting after recycling / remelting, become more and more unsuitable for "noble" uses. thus, the great part of the scrap becomes reinforcing bars.

For glass, reuse is also problematic: The collection, transport and melting of recycled glass are expensive in energy. We start to mechanically separate the white glasses from the colored glasses, but not for everything that is broken. In addition, recycling errors (pyrex / arcopal crockery, window glass, special glasses) reduce the quality of recycled glass, and can even make it incompatible with food use (lead / crystal glass, glass for the glass). uranium / urinal, glass of barium cathodic tubes, thorium glass).

Not easy. The industry is constantly making new materials that are ever more complex and ever less recyclable. We will love nanotech and other innovative materials.
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by moinsdewatt » 20/04/18, 21:09

Daisy, the Apple robot capable of dismantling and sorting 200 iPhone per hour

By Journalist Figaro Marius François the 20 / 04 / 2018

With this new recycling robot, the Cupertino company wants to recover more materials than before.

She has only Donald Duck's girlfriend's name. Daisy, the new iPhone recycling robot has just been commissioned, according to a company statement. Able to recycle 200 smartphones per hour, Apple's device is able to sort more effectively than a human phone phones to be recycled from those who are too degraded. Daisy separates the different components of the smartphone and classifies them by type. The firm says it will be able to recover more materials than before. Just drop devices at the beginning of the line and Daisy takes care of everything, item by item. Open the iPhone, remove the battery, collect all the screws, extract the motherboard that contains precious metals: the machine scrupulously dismantles each device. The recovered materials are then passed on to traditional recycling companies.

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Daisy, Liam's little sister

Apple is not at his first attempt. The American brand launched Liam in 2016, an experimental rebreather robot for the iPhone 6. It could remove tungsten from phones, a metal particularly used in new technologies and which China provides 80% of production. The robot could process 1,2 million products to be recycled per year. According to Apple, Daisy outperforms his big brother by dismantling 9 different smartphone models. It can not support the iPhone X, the latest addition to the range. Apple has two machines running in Texas and the Netherlands.
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by chatelot16 » 22/04/18, 13:19

the recycling of plastic is not necessarily the best solution: some plastic are good fuel, without any risk of pollution: it is stupid to burn oil for heating, it is much better to use the oil for packing in polyethylene, and use them in fuel when they do their work in shipping

To avoid pollution by plastic waste it is absolutely necessary to give them a recognized value as a fuel ... even in countries where there is no need for heating, it is necessary to collect the plastic waste to sell and transport it where it is needed. there is need

the problem is to pay for this plastic waste and not to be swindled with cochonerie ... it's all the advantage of liquid petrol: it only takes one analysis to check the quality of an entire tank of 'a petrolier ... verifying the quality of a large quantity of waste is much more complicated ... how to check that there are not tons of piggyback underneath?
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by moinsdewatt » 22/04/18, 14:26

Suez France inaugurates a sorting center in Carcassonne

SYLVIE BROUILLET Factory New 12 / 04 / 2018

Delegate of Covaldem 11, Audeval (Suez) has just inaugurated an environment center of 10 million euros in Carcassonne (Aude), whose sorting capacity is shared with a Suez site in Narbonne (Aude) to optimize flows. In addition, Audeval is expected to launch in the autumn 2018 the site of a material recovery unit in Alzonne, near Carcassonne.

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The Environment Pole of Carcassonne, set up by Suez via its subsidiary Audeval for the joint syndicate Covaldem 11, which groups 384 communes audoises (240 000 inhabitants), was officially inaugurated on April 6, was. Suez had obtained a public service delegation of 19, effective January 1 2016er. Built for nearly 10 million euros, including 2 contributed by Citeo, the environment division annually collects 30 000 tons of waste and processes 18 000 tons. The mechanical, optical and aeraulic sorting tools can process up to 6 tons of waste per hour. To optimize flows, Suez benefits from another center operating in the Aude - Narbonne, 60 km. Selective collection flows are handled by the Carcassonne site for both Covaldem 11 and Greater Narbonne, while the bulky flows of the two zones are treated by the Narbonne site.

On the job side, if the collection / sorting center employs 22 people, Audeval has 70 employees working for the Carcassonne environment center. The site includes a new generation waste disposal facility, the Recydrive, where the user makes only one stop regardless of the type of waste brought and a fun and educational Tri Aventure. It also hosts the Le Grenier Ressourcerie, operated by two local associations of insertion (a dozen posts).

An early material recovery unit 2020

The contract also provides for the creation by Audeval in Alzonne, north-west of Carcassonne, of a composting platform for green waste (operational, it sells its first standardized compost AB) and a material recovery unit ( UVM) for 12 million euros. This UVM is waiting for its authorization decree, and the public inquiry on the license to operate will begin the 27 April. According to Covaldem 11, the start of work is scheduled for 2018 fall, with a start of testing and testing a year later and a first-quarter delivery 2020. The unit will be sized to receive 70 000 tons per year of residual household waste, transit and consolidation of 3 000 tons of bio-waste per year.

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by moinsdewatt » 04/07/18, 19:38

The recycling of steel packaging in Europe reached a new record of 79,5%, and should easily reach the goal of 80% by 2020, according to figures from the association of European producers of steel for packaging, APEAL. The sector has seen steady growth in recycling since 2016. This means that for 10 steel packaging put on the European market, nearly 8 are collected and recycled.

In France, the rate is above the European average, 83% (figure 2016 Ademe). ArcelorMittal has recycled into 2017 at its two sites in Dunkirk and Fos-sur-Mer, 42 000 tons of steel waste from curbside recycling, a growth of 8% compared to 2016.

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steel packaging, include: cans and cans.
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by Ahmed » 04/07/18, 19:42

"42 tonnes of steel waste", just for empty cans and cans! This shows that dietetics have a good margin of progress ... : roll:
Scrap metal is the easiest waste to recycle: easy to sort and reusable almost indefinitely (which is not at all the case of plastics).
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by moinsdewatt » 21/10/18, 10:13

(France) Recycling returns to form

Franck Stassi Factory New the 17 / 10 / 2018

In 2017, nonferrous metals pulled the recycling industry. The workforce has increased by 6% in the sector, shaken by the closure of China's borders to a panel of subjects.

The rebound in the recycling sector is confirmed. "After a year in 2016 when the prices of raw materials stagnated or even fell, 2017 saw sales volumes and, to a lesser extent, prices start to rise again", observes the president of the Federation of recycling companies, Jean-Philippe Carpentier. Some 104,9 million tonnes (Mt) of waste were collected in 2017 in France, compared to 102,5 Mt in 2016. The sector has mainly grown in value, with turnover up 5,7 , 9,05%, to XNUMX billion euros.

The nonferrous metals segment was particularly buoyant in 2017, with 10,2% rise in tonnages collected, to almost 2 Mt. The recovery in the automotive and construction sectors and the rise in metal prices favored the sales growth of the branch (+ 10%, to 3 billion euros). On the other hand, the sharp rise in textile tonnages collected (+ 6,2%) was hampered by a weak demand for salvage products.

After the difficulties encountered in recent years and the complexification of the business lines, the sector is focusing, investing more (521 million euros) while progressing in terms of employment (+ 6%) with 28 356 employees. Import restrictions put in place by China forced manufacturers to find new markets (Asia, North Africa, Central Europe) and to strengthen their sorting policy. In the coming months, recyclers will monitor the effect of Donald Trump's steel taxes and the implementation of the circular economy roadmap.

Jean-Philippe Carpentier, president of Federec: "confidence has returned"

What elements have you noticed in 2017?
The sector has progressed. The first indicator is the number of jobs, which rose by 6%. Companies have confidence. We returned to the pre-existing level of employment before 2014, a year marked by a halving of iron ore and a sharp drop in oil prices. Very low oil prices in 2014-2015 penalized us in view of the attractiveness of primary materials. Since 2016, the rise in commodity prices is helping us. Tonnages and turnover increased.

What is your view of the crisis related to the closure of China's borders to materials whose quality was considered insufficient?
The crisis related to this decision is complicated in the short term. In the medium and long term, this is a great opportunity to develop a quality recycling industry. Our members have tried to find outlets, transferred tons of poor quality sepia paper to energy recovery, sent tons to India ... However, this does not offset the volumes that went to China. The real start is the resumption of investments in our factories to produce quality materials.

Why did the tonnages of non-ferrous metals increase significantly this year?
The production is distributed, and we are the reflection, being in post-industrial positioning. Better margins allowed us to improve our investments (521 million euros invested in the profession, for 465 millions in 2016). We are a profession that invests. Many family businesses that hire and invest.

The situation is more difficult for plastics and for construction waste ...
Recycling plastics can no longer cross a course. The implementation of the 5 flow decree, beginning 2016, which obliges manufacturers and traders to sort, has been insufficiently controlled. Regarding construction waste, actors are asking the question of who will pay. Nonferrous metals do not have that problem. Burial is much less expensive than recycling. We continue more than ever to work on this issue.



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by moinsdewatt » 26/01/19, 20:14

The return to grace of chemical recycling of plastics

Laurent Rousselle Factory New the 25 / 01 / 2019

As unrealistic as it may be, the French objective of recycling 100% of plastics by 2025 has the merit of shaking up the industry. The current mechanical processes of plastic recycling are insufficient to meet the quality requirements of the plastics industry. Chemical recycling, still a pilot, is the only one able to meet the challenges of circular economy, reduction of pollution and dependence on fossil fuels.

Is the mechanical recycling of our plastic packaging reaching its limits? This technical choice is widely imposed, in France and elsewhere. Today, part of our plastic packaging is sorted, cleaned, crushed, melted before being reused, without affecting the structure of the polymer. "An industry that works well", according to Carlos de Los Llanos, scientific director of the eco-organization Citeo, but which is "insufficient to process all types of plastics and meet future regulatory objectives."

Today, out of all the various plastic packaging used by households (around 1,1 million tonnes), "50% can be recycled without any problem [provided they are collected, Editor's note], 25% pose more difficulties and 25 % do not yet have a recycling solution ", indicates the Citeo representative. To these quantities are added 1 million tonnes of industrial and commercial plastic packaging for which the problem is quite similar. Worldwide, a million bottles are produced every minute.

Regain value on used plastic

Only half of the plastic packaging that can easily be recycled, ie 26% of the deposit, is recycled in France. This is too little, if we consider the 55% target set by the European Union in 2030 or, worse, the French government's desire to move towards 100% recycling five years earlier.

In addition to these recycling objectives, ambitions in terms of secondary material integration are added. Always in 2030, the bottles must contain a minimum of 30% recycled material (rPET or rPEhd mainly), which supposes to have a recycled material of very high quality, especially for food or cosmetic packaging. In France, industrial recycling sites that have obtained authorization to contact food remain too rare. As a result, one out of every two bottles of water is collected, but only one in ten will become a bottle, the majority being degraded into fiber.

To gain the confidence of the regulatory authorities, plastics manufacturers and food and cosmetics manufacturers, it is necessary to return to pure resins, ideally to the monomer that makes up the polymers commonly used.

Chemical recycling to the rescue

It is to meet this challenge that recycling, in its chemical version, is regaining the interest of the giants of the chemical and plastics industry. "The objective is to prepare for the future", recalls Carlos de Los Llanos, "and chemistry represents an interesting complement to recycle more plastics within four to five years". The technique is not new. The scientific bases have been known and mastered since the 1990s.

Main obstacles, the feasibility of scaling up and its economic viability have still not been demonstrated because depolymerization is expensive. The business model remains to be found, especially with a low oil price that makes virgin materials competitive. But this reasoning, valid yesterday, may not be so tomorrow.

With the threat of the carbon price combined with a risk of image, more and more manufacturers are asking the question of recycling. Citeo will also present to its members and partners, marketers and recyclers, in early February, around ten emerging technologies from all over the world. Among the start-ups and companies invited to Forum plastic solutions (February 4 and 5 in Paris) include, among others, Ioniqa (Netherlands), Loop Industries and Polystyvert (Canada), APK (Germany), Jeplan (Japan), Purecycle Technologies (United States), Recyclng Technologies (United Kingdom) and the French company Carbios. Apart from Japan, the only country to have already industrialized - with successive phases of stopping and relaunching - the chemical recycling of part of its plastics, all countries are more or less at the same level in their development, says Carlos de los Llanos.

French research tackles complex and colorful PET

France can, for its part, rely on the research conducted by IFP Energie Nouvelles. Its Lyon site, which focuses on research in the fields of energy, transportation and the environment, is working on the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one of the five most used resins in our containers. The global industry consumes 70 million tons a year. PET is particularly present in our water bottles and food trays. In its transparent version, it is the easiest resin to recycle with current techniques. But it is more difficult to recycle in its colored version or when it has barrier layers to ensure the long-term preservation of a product sensitive to light or oxygen, such as milk. This has created a stir during the proliferation of opaque PET bottles, disrupting conventional PET recycling cycles.

Industrial rPET suitable for food contact in 2022

This poorly recycled deposit is a significant resource shortfall, as the market demand for recycled PET is poised for strong growth. With its solvolysis solution, IFP Energie Nouvelles is trying to answer it. The project, started in 2015, could, potentially, be industrializable in 2022. Today, scientists have passed validation steps at the laboratory scale and carried out studies at the intermediate level. The current depolymerization process works for quantities of up to several kilograms per day. Numerical simulation tools make it possible to avoid heavy material investments to carry out tests. It remains to bring it to an industrial scale.

Concretely, plastic flakes are first associated with a solvent, glycol, also constituting PET, before being mixed and heated to about 260 °. The result is a depolymerized brown cream, which will then be decolorized and purified through a process through several filtration steps, to recover the basic component of PET - its monomer - transparent. Once repolymerized by the polymerists, it will produce food contact packaging to complete the loop.

Carbios relies on 2023 biorecycling

More ambitious ecologically, green chemistry also tackles the recycling of plastics. PET complex in particular. The French Carbios is part of the handful of companies to have innovated in this field. Its originality has been to entrust the recycling of plastic packaging to enzymes. Some of these proteins, present in the natural environment, can degrade the monomer chain. But the process is slow and takes several weeks. Carbios' approach consisted of transforming these enzymes into veritable gluttons, by genetic engineering. Mixed with plastic waste in an 60 ° tank, these insatiable eaters play the role of biological catalyst and deconstruct the molecules of PET in 16 hours only.

Launched in 2011, the activity of Carbios - which has also developed, through its joint venture Carbiolice, a solution for biodegrading PLA from enzymes - has already swallowed up 25 million euros for its two solutions. "The PLA biodegradation technology will be marketed in 2020 in the form of granules", specifies Benjamin Audebert, in charge of investor relations. For PET, the company is aiming for an initial commercialization under license in 2023. On January 17, Carbios received funding of 4,1 million euros from Ademe to accelerate the industrialization of the biorecycling of plastics and fibers. In June, the creation of its industrial demonstrator will begin in Saint Fons (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes).

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by moinsdewatt » 13/04/19, 00:55

Environment Massif Central will double its plastic waste processing capacity in Mende

Sylvie Brouillet Factory New the 12 / 04 / 2019

Waste specialist Environment Massif Central, 70 SME employees, invests heavily in the recovery of plastics in Mende (Lozère). A 3,5 million-euro plan will increase 5 000's production capacity to more than 10 000 annual tonnes in the second half of 2019. An investment that follows a plan of 9 million euros over the 2016-2018 period.

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Environment Massif Central invests in the recovery of plastics in Mende

Based at the Causse d'Auge in Mende (Lozère), the operator of collection, sorting, recycling and recovery of waste (scrap metal, wood, DIB, WEEE, plastics) Environnement Massif Central relies heavily on the transformation of plastics. To double its production capacity from 5 to 000 tonnes, it ordered its third washing and grinding line and its second extruder, an investment of 10 million euros. "The start-up of the machines is planned for the second half of the year, in an existing building. Once the installations are operational, the transformation of plastics should represent half of the turnover," said Philippe Michelet, administrative and financial director. The SME, which needs additional space and storage, will also invest 000 million euros to extend a 2 m² building to 1,5 m². The building permit has been obtained and the work must be completed at the end of 10-beginning of 000. Good to know: the new investment follows a program of 4 million euros committed over 000-2019. After the arrival in 2020 of the first plastics processing line, a second line was launched in 9 and the first extruder in 2016 to produce polypropylene and polyethylene flakes and granules. "We are almost the only ones in France to offer the range from collection to processing in the form of granules, notes Philippe Michelet. They are used in particular for plastics processing companies and the automotive industry."

To run the new capacities, Environnement Massif Central, which has 70 employees, is planning five to ten hires. "We have seven positions in progress, which we have difficulty filling. We are ready to train, this is what we have always done", assures Philippe Michelet.

Founded in 1997 by Olivier Dalle, the Mendoise company has achieved 11,3 millions of euros of turnover in 2017 and should mix with 13 million euros in 2018 (15% growth).

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by Grelinette » 16/04/19, 17:25

It is an initiative that has no common measure with the projects described in this topic, but small drops make big tides!

We can also consider the problem of the base, namely by the citizen whose behavior can generate unnecessary and lasting pollution, or conversely reduce or even combat it ...

Living in the heart of nature, there are hiking trails that pass in front of us. Regularly with my 2 young children we go for a little walk on these paths and we take the opportunity to pick up the waste abandoned in nature: it is hopeless to see how some walkers throw everything and anything, "and in at the same time ", as our president would say, if each of us made the effort to pick up some waste found on a walk, nature would be all the better for it.

In short, tired of picking up waste again and again in nature, we have installed a trash can in nature and for nature ("pirate" trash, because not authorized in a public space), with a locker containing bags, and a poster that encourages walkers to take a bag from a locker, to collect some waste and throw it in the trash when they return from their walk.

For the moment there are few walkers who play the game, but some begin to do it and a few bags of rubbish come slowly, slowly fill the container, and that's enough to win!
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